Topic: Tunisia

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri called on Algerians to overthrow the government of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and praised Libyan rebels for seizing Tripoli, in a new video.Osama bin Laden's successor Zawahiri urged Libyans to adopt sharia law as they rebuild the country after ...
Eighteen people were killed and 26 wounded in a suicide bombing at a military academy in Algeria, the defence ministry said Saturday.The ministry said 16 officers and two civilians were among the dead at the Cherchell military academy, west of Algiers. Twenty ...
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the longtime Egyptian number two to Osama bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda leader killed earlier this month, has called on Saudis to take up this year's wave of Arab revolt.In an audiotape which the jihadist network's media arm Al-Sahab said was ...

Al Qaeda releases posthumous bin Laden audio recording

CAIRO (Reuters) - Al Qaeda released a posthumous audio recording by Osama bin Laden posted on Jihadi websites, in which the Islamist group's ex-leader praised revolutions sweeping the Arab world.The SITE monitoring service reported on Thursday that the audio by bin Laden, ...
Suspected Al-Qaeda militants fought security forces in Tunisia Wednesday, leaving two soldiers and two alleged extremists dead, officials said, amid concern about the infiltration of Islamic fighters.The alleged militants were wearing belts of explosives and were "terrorists, strongly suspected of belonging to ...

Al Qaeda suspected in deadly Tunisia clash

TUNIS (Reuters) - A group of suspected al Qaeda members opened fire on Tunisian forces on Wednesday, killing four, a security source told Reuters.Three of the nine armed men were killed in the clash in the northern town of Rouhia.Arab and Western ...
Tunisia said Sunday it has arrested an Algerian and a Libyan in possession of explosives in the country's first arrests of suspected members of Al-Qaeda's north African offshoot.The two men were detained in Nekrif, a town in the southern Tataouine region 130 ...

Tunisia arrests al Qaeda suspects with bombs: TV

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian security forces have arrested two people suspected of being members of al Qaeda near the Libyan border who were carrying an explosives belt and several bombs, Tunisian television reported on Sunday.It said the men, thought to be members ...

Al-Qaeda revenge in Iraq 'likely': Iraqi minister

Terror network Al-Qaeda is "likely" to seek revenge for the killing of its leader Osama bin Laden by striking in Iraq, the country's foreign minister said Saturday."Al-Qaeda is still present in Iraq and pursues its operations in the country, so its revenge ...

Al-Qaeda number two broaches Libya in new video

Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri incites Muslims to rise up against both NATO and Moamer Kadhafi's forces in a newly released video apparently taped before the Western intervention in Libya.Zawahiri, wearing a white robe, was speaking in a one hour and nine ...
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